The Parliamentary Committee on National Economy has learnt that the Minister of Health, Jane Ruth Aceng has written to President Museveni seeking his intervention in the controversies surrounding the construction of Lubowa Hospital. The revelation was made on Thursday by the Minister while meeting with MPs who had summoned her
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By Drake Nyamugabwa Uganda's Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development (MGLSD) has released a list of 69 stranded young Ugandan girls that went to the Middle East to secure informal jobs without the guidance of registered recruitment agencies who are under Ministry of Gender and Labour. The statement issued
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Oil producer China National Offshore Oil Corp said on Thursday it had halted field work at its western Uganda project over an Ebola scare and would resume operations only after getting the green light from the health ministry. Uganda’s oilfields in the Albertine rift basin are a few miles from
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Cannabis appears to be the new gold as reports indicate that 50 companies are now jostling for the benefits that come with growing the plant. According to local reports, more than 50 firms (both foreign and local), have joined the race to grow and export weed. This number has grown
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The resignation of Congo’s health minister in the midst of the country’s worst Ebola outbreak could clear the way for a second experimental vaccine to be deployed. But the new shot would likely take months to win the trust of frightened locals and show results, health officials say. Oly Ilunga,
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President Yoweri Museveni and former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, on Tuesday had a meeting and reviewed the progress of the Horn of Africa member countries’ security, economic and political challenges as the region strives to realize regional integration. Mr. Mbeki is head of the African Union High Level Implementation
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The Sudanese army says that after foiling a military coup it has arrested several high ranking officers and senior members of the former governing National Congress Party (NCP). It is not clear exactly when the coup attempt happened, but the authorities could be referring to one that allegedly took place
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He's worked on Windows Mobile for Microsoft. He was cofounder of a company that sold to Russia's Google, Yandex, in a reported $38 million deal that made him wealthy. But Yaroslav Goncharov's biggest success (and stress) has come with a company that's miniscule by comparison: FaceApp. Leading a staff of
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Ugandan businessman Patrick Bitature has refuted reports that his businesses benefited from an offshore arrangement to lower his tax bill in Uganda. Recently, leaked documents from Mauritius showed that Bitature and his company Electro-Maxx Uganda Limited received loans from Africa Frontier 1 LLC, a company based in Mauritius. ALSO READ:
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By AFP Facebook reported Wednesday that its quarterly profit plummeted due to the cost of a US privacy settlement and forecast that regulation would slow its money-making ad machine. Profit in the second quarter fell 49 percent from a year ago to Sh270.4 billion (USD 2.6 billion) while revenues increased
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